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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:33:28 -0700, Jerry Friedman    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2/11/15 2:45 PM, Adam Funk wrote:   
   >> On 2015-02-11, Wayne Brown wrote:   
   >...   
   >   
   >>> The founder, Bob Jones himself, was only barely convinced that   
   >>> C.S. Lewis was on the up-and-up.  He once said, with evident   
   >>> surprise, "That man smokes and drinks, but I do believe he is a   
   >>> Christian!"   
   >>   
   >> I'm told that a lot of American fundamentalists like C.S. Lewis on the   
   >> basis of some of his writings, the ones about women obeying men ---   
   >> but they ignore that he wrote that particular stuff while he was   
   >> single, as well as that he drank, smoked, & prayed for the dead.   
   >   
   >It's easy to find on-line articles by American fundamentalists who think   
   >that though Lewis may have believed he was a Christian, he was a   
   >pernicious heretic and quite possibly under the influence of the Devil.   
   >  How representative those articles are of the fundamentalist population   
   >I don't know.   
      
   Probably not very representative, but I suspect that Fundamentalists are a lot   
   less representative of Protestantism, even in the US, than many people seem to   
   think. Those who regard Lewis as a heretic seem to be mainly of the   
   ultra-Calvinist persuasion.   
      
   See here, for example:   
      
   http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/church/6-heretics-should-be-   
   anned-evangelicalism   
      
      
      
      
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